Sunday, November 23, 2008

This is my favorite place. Jack Carver and his family built this cabin with their own hands in '78, no frills but it's as perfect as it gets. The lake is at the bottom of his street and the Sherwood bowl @ Alpine Meadows is at the top. I try to get out West to spend time there as often as possible, adding to the great memories I've already stockpiled. I'm lucky to be able to call Jack my friend.

Another photo dug up from the way back machine. I took a knifemaking class at the craft center I used to teach at and this is what I came up with. Forging hot metal is so fun, I want to build a knife forge in my shop.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I can remember waking up at 4am when I was a kid so I could watch "The Road Warrior"on my half-assed movie channel called "The Preview Channel". I don't know if anybody else remembers this, but subscribers would get this box with one button on it that would de-scramble a UHF channel so you could watch movies that they would run. This was so long ago it was before I knew anybody with a VCR.

Well, this post is for my friend Terry Parker. He is a collector and fanatic of all that is Mad Max. Copies of the movie scripts, original artwork, and even a replica of Toecutter's KZ. Terry's a talented fabricator who builds some cool bikes. I'll be fabbing a tank and bars for his next build, not because he can't, he just want's to build it with parts his friends have had a hand in.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Picture bailing a chest high frontside air on a vert ramp, knee-sliding to the flat bottom and catching a screw with your hand on the way down. That's not the way it happened, but it sounds way cooler than slipping and falling on your ass while walking your dog into your back yard to pee. Nice way to wake up on a Sunday morning before the first sip of coffee.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

This one is for Blair's ironhead project. He needed a mustang tank that was about 20" in length and 11" at it's widest point, so we started with a stock 4 gallon model. After shifting the fuel bung over to allow for narrowing, this is how she looks. Add a tunnel and mounts and it's off to our neighbors to the North.